US SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS OREGON SUICIDE LAW
The US Supreme Court has upheld Oregon's controversial assisted suicide law and declared that the Bush administration exceeded its authority in trying to undo the...
HWANG IN DISGRACE
Investigators have confirmed that stunning advances in embryonic stem cell research by a team of South Korean researchers were fraudulent. Stem cell researchers around the...
UK CLONING RESEARCH TEAM SPLITS UP
The only other research team to have successfully cloned human embryos has quarrelled and split up in a dispute about unprofessional self-promotion. Two professors at...
USE RABBIT EGGS, SAYS BRITISH STEM CELL EXPERT
After Professor Hwang failed to derive embryonic stem cell lines from more than 2000 human eggs, it is obvious that cloning human embryos will not...
CLONING BAN UNCONSTITUTIONAL, SAYS CALIFORNIA ACADEMIC
Although nearly everyone in favour of therapeutic cloning swears that reproductive cloning is unethical and unsafe, very few are able to explain exactly why it...
CHINESE EMBRACE COSMETIC SURGERY
As the economy becomes more competitive and personal income rises, more and more Chinese are taking up cosmetic surgery. In a marked change from the...
IN BRIEF: Spain; France; Congo; tissue theft racket
A Spanish stem cell researcher has come under fire for developing human embryonic stem cells without proper consent from patients. Carlos Sim?n, of the Valencian...